DEAR EDITOR:
To Kristine Dillon and the like regarding what Ms. Dillon has
referred to as an adult
”
freedom of choice
”
Forum vs. the Moral Adult Forum of Gilroy in Friday’s
letter.
DEAR EDITOR:
To Kristine Dillon and the like regarding what Ms. Dillon has referred to as an adult “freedom of choice” Forum vs. the Moral Adult Forum of Gilroy in Friday’s letter.
Adults without control of their impulses and sexuality cannot be called adults at all. There is nothing more juvenile or immature than a man or woman who cannot differentiate sexual intimacy and entertainment. We have a segment of society that is not only deviant by standards established throughout the history of time on earth but they are also self-indulgent and irresponsible with the precious time allotted to them to accomplish much with their life.
I realize not everyone is normal and many people cannot control their compulsive behaviors. This is why we have treatments and psychiatry to help people to function more fully.
Prisons are overflowing with people who thought their freedom of choice was superior to the rules of society that keep society intact. Maybe if they were treated medically before making such tragic choices they would have had a different perspective and would have accomplished much with their life. Somewhere along the line, they allowed themselves to believe that rules didn’t apply to them but freedom to choose did. However, none of us would have the freedom to choose if we didn’t have rules.
The individual who deludes himself into believing that freedom to choose precludes rules, sets himself up for disillusionment and the snowball effect is failure. Unfortunately there are others living in society, innocents, who have nothing to do with this individual’s detachment from reality that are inevitably victims of the gradual descent from the norms and standards of true freedom.
So, Ms. Dillon, what you call an adult forum is not adult at all but rather an adolescent rejection of adult choices and successes. What you call a moral adult forum is simply the sane trying to keep society for the next generation. That goal can only be disregarded by those without full use of their faculties, either by medical need or self-serving choice.
Miriam Williams, Gilroy
Submitted Saturday, Nov. 2 to ed****@ga****.com
